Andrea Foster, Who Should Own Science?Chronicle of Higher Education, October 1, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "Creative Commons is a group that developed an alternative copyright system to make literature, music, films, and scholarship freely available to the public. Now it plans to do the same for scientific and technological research. The new project, called Science Commons, will encourage universities to voluntarily forgo some of the protections of patent and trade-secret laws in order to make scientific research more accessible to other universities, researchers, and the public through an alternative licensing scheme....Leaders of the new project see themselves as helping researchers, university administrators, and company officials negotiate uniform licenses under which institutions would give up some ownership rights, allowing scientists at different institutions to build on each other's discoveries more easily. So far, Science Commons' developers have offered few details about the new licenses, saying they are only in the beginning stages of the project, which will be formally unveiled this winter."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/27/2004 10:14:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
